Vandaman wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > >> Now ... an upgrade from 4.5 or 4.6 to 4.7 should not have broken your >> machine either, so we need to figure out why it did. >> > > The server CD contains 4.4 and if you use yum you should be able to > get to 4.7 without any problems. Its a different story if you have > packages from other repos that could potentially overwite base so > you end up with something else not CentOS. > > Someone else has just posted his yum got broken by messing about > with other repos trying to upgrade php. It is likely python, sqlite > were all overwritten. As the CentOS wiki says if you break something > from 3rd/4th party repos you get to keep the pieces. > > Regards, > Vandaman. > Ummmm. I s'pect Johnny Hughes, to whom you replied, understands repo mixing. http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=2